Community Market disappointing
I love to set my sims to plant for an hour and come back to it as a reward in my working day. This is how I’ve updates my job locations - police, movie, spa, hospital, as well. Set things and come back.
This new update appears to me nothing more than a money grab, it hinders my ability to make simoleons, because I used to have like 25 sims sitting around growing things. Now I have none. The market at most will be able to hold ten so what do I do with the other ones? It will take much longer for me to accumulate simoleons to do other tasks so the part of the game that is my favorite - growing the town and building more things will take longer to do, and for what? Something that looks like the sims version of township ( based on the ads) which I don’t play on purpose because it looks boring as heck?
Not to mention I have to purchase each of the plots at the market, they aren’t just readily available like all my former plots. So really, rather than paying me in simoelons for the plants that were growing, you should have also offered a premium for the plots that I can no longer make simoleons off of. Now there is less interest for me in playing the game.
You never do anything to improve the creative side of the game for the player. If I want to build a house to design my people I have to scroll through all the options I’ve collected over years of play, there’s no good search for this yet, there’s no different body types to better look like a more varied group of people, you don’t have any disabled characters at all. All that potential creative expression is hindered, but for me that’s part of why I play in the first place. Everyone I know who plays any version of the sims plays for that creative aspect. Sure we need simoleons to do so, but why fix something that isn’t broken and continue to ignore something that players continue to ask to improve, it just makes no sense to me why there isn’t more consumer research for these updates.
